Portimão Hospital Emergency Director Replaced Following Patient’s Death
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In the association's view, "a wait of 10 to 12 hours is not acceptable, regardless of the arrival at the service, for an urgent patient of 87 years".
The Local Health Unit (ULS) of the Algarve announced this Thursday that it will institute an investigation to determine the circumstances of the death of a man of 87 years who was waiting to attend the Emergency Service of Portimão
An investigation was instituted to determine the circumstances of the death of a 87-year-old man, who was awaiting service at the Portimão Emergency Service.
Emergency Director of Portimão Hospital Exonerated After Death of Elderly Person Who Waited 12 Hours
<p>The hospital administration ensures that the removal was already planned. However, two investigations were opened to determine the circumstances of the 87-year-old man's death.</p>
The news of the death of an 87-year-old man in the Portimão emergency room, advanced yesterday by SIC, has indirectly precipitated the already planned exemption of the director of the Medical-Surgical Emergency room in Portimão. The elderly person was found unconscious after a wait of almost 12 hours to be observed by a doctor. The family guarantees that he will advance to court.
It was replaced the director of the Emergency Service of the Hospital of Portimão, in a decision that, according to a hospital source cited by the agency Lusaka, is not related to the death of a man of 87 years, occurred in the early morning of Wednesday, November 4, after about 10 hours of waiting for medical care. Despite...
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